My pastor, Mike Erre told a story yesterday that bears repeating. Apparently he has a friend who adopted a little boy. During their first few months of adjusting to each other, the parents noticed that the little boy was hiding food all around his...

The New York Post recent ran an article about an alcoholic court stenographer that went rogue. Daniel Kochanski created havoc on some major court cases causing various judges to have "reconstruction hearings" where witnesses tried to remember what...

I am a huge C. S. Lewis fan. My first encounter was through Mere Christianity; and then I "chewed" my way through The Screwtape Letters, Miracles and all the others. I think the only works I have not read are his science fiction trilogy. But my...

We definitely live in a world of instant gratification. We expect our needs (and most of our wants) to be satisfied immediately. No more wanting for anything, including food choices. The microwave oven sure helped us along that path, but now there...

The astronaut William Reid Pogue died recently. Born in Oklahoma, he served as an Air Force pilot during the Korean War and then joined the Apollo project in 1966. He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 7, 11, and 14 missions....

Garth Callaghan has been writing his daughter Emma notes on napkins for years. They are simple messages that just allow dad and daughter to have a connecting moment in the middle of the day. But Garth has been diagnosed with kidney cancer and he is...

I was rummaging through an old file and came across this note. Sure made me chuckle.... "Age 3: Looks at herself and sees a Queen! Age 8: Looks at herself and sees herself as Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty. Age 15: Looks at herself and sees herself...

According to the book The Traveler's Gift and a companion book by Andy Andrews called Mastering the Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success, there are seven big time choices that you and I can make that will greatly impact the course of our...

As I write this, I am sitting in row 19, in my customary aisle seat. I lucked out when the gal in the middle seat shifted to go sit with her boyfriend, leaving me and my row mate with some extra elbowroom. The take off was normal "SOP" and the...

A recent article from the magazine, Christian School Education caught my eye. I found myself cheering the author along as she discussed what it would be like if she lost the freedom of declaring the truths of God in her class...even for one day....

A week or two ago, a British woman began to publically bemoan the fact that she had given her ex-husband a kidney transplant. It seems that a few years after the operation, she suspicioned that he was unfaithful to her and they ended up divorced....

It is definitely a fact of life that "hurdles happen." Life is a series of experiences, many wonderful, almost transcendent and some much different, almost impossible to bear. As the hurdles appear, it is important to recognize them for what they...